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Pitts: a Basic Trainer July 2013 •Burning Grass in a Boeing 727 •Flight Cam Solution Pitts: A Basic Trainer OFFICIAL MAGAZINE of the INTERNATIONAL AEROBATIC CLUB OFFICIAL MAGAZINE of the INTERNATIONAL AEROBATIC CLUB OFFICIAL MAGAZINE of the INTERNATIONAL AEROBATIC CLUB Vol. 42 No.7 July 2013 A PUBLICATION OF THE INTERNATIONAL AEROBATIC CLUB CONTENTSOFFICIAL MAGAZINE of the INTERNATIONAL AEROBATIC CLUB “I said ‘basic trainer,’ as in the same basic training category as a C-152 or a Piper Cub.” –Budd Davisson FEATURES 4 Pitts as a Trainer by Budd Davisson 12 Cutting Grass With the Boeing 727 by Mark Benton 16 iPhone What Else Do You Need? by Patrick Carter THE COVER COLUMNS 20 / Ask Allen Grady Marx flies his Pitts S-2b for EAA’s camera crew 32 / Meet a Member during a recent AirVenture. Photo by Bonnie Kratz. DEPARTMENTS 2 / Letter From the Editor 3 / News 24 / Contest Calendar 31 / FlyMart & Classifieds OFFICIAL MAGAZINE of the INTERNATIONAL AEROBATIC CLUB REGGIE PAULK COMMENTARY / EDITOR’S LOG OFFICIAL MAGAZINE of the INTERNATIONAL AEROBATIC CLUB PuBliSher: Doug Sowder iAC MAnAGer: Trish Deimer-Steineke editor: Reggie Paulk OFFICIAL MAGAZINE of the INTERNATIONAL AEROBATIC CLUB EDITITOR in ChieF: J. Mac McClellan Senior ART direCTOR: Olivia P. Trabbold July can only mean AirVenture ContriButinG AuthorS: But first, the Boeing 727 & the Pitts as Trainer Mark Benton Gary DeBaun Patrick Carter Reggie Paulk Budd DavissonOFFICIAL MAGAZINE of the INTERNATIONALAllen Silver AEROBATIC CLUB iAC CorrespondenCe International Aerobatic Club, P.O. Box 3086 This month, we take a small Budd Davisson is one of those Oshkosh, WI 54903-3086 tel: 920.426.6574 • Fax: 920.426.6579 detour off the beaten path to characters in the aviation world e-mail: [email protected] talk about two subjects rarely whose name has become syn- mentioned in the world of Aero- onymous with a certain aircraft AdVERTISinG batics—the Boeing 727 and Pitts type—in this case the Pitts. He Katrina Bradshaw [email protected] Sue Anderson [email protected] as a basic trainer. How does a is well known as the guy who Jeff Kaufman [email protected] Boeing 727 have anything to do will teach you how to land a Pitts with aerobatics, you ask? over and over while keeping it MAilinG: Change of address, lost or damaged in one piece. During the course magazines, back issues. of thousands of hours teaching eAA-iAC Membership Services others to fly the airplane, he has tel: 800.843.3612 Fax: 920.426.6761 e-mail: [email protected] come to a much deeper under- . burning the grass standing of its capabilities. She the international Aerobatic Club is a division of the eAA. may be fast and small and super at Denver Stapleton sensitive to the slightest input, but Budd has one conclusion; the EAA® and SPORT AVIATION®, the EAA Logo® and Aeronautica™ are back in the day. Pitts biplane is the ideal basic registered trademarks and service marks of the Experimental Aircraft trainer. And why not? I only wish Association, Inc. The use of these trademarks and service marks without the permission of the Experimental Aircraft Association, Inc. is strictly I had started out in a Pitts! prohibited. Copyright © 2013 by the International Aerobatic Club, Inc. Is it July already? That can All rights reserved. Mark Benton contributed a mean only one thing; Oshkosh! The International Aerobatic Club, Inc. is a division of EAA and of the story in a previous issue of the We’ll be there at the IAC building NAA. magazine dedicated to his love and Vicki Cruse Pavilion on Phil- affair with a certain Pitts bi- lips 66 Plaza—the best seat in A STATEMENT OF POLICY The International Aerobatic Club, Inc. cannot assume responsibility for the accuracy of the material plane. Through our conversa- the house. Come on down, sit in presented by the authors of the articles in the magazine. The pages tions, I learned he is an airline the shade and enjoy listening to of Sport Aerobatics are offered as a clearing house of information captain, and used to fly sideways an all-star lineup of speakers. The and a forum for the exchange of opinions and ideas. The individual reader must evaluate this material for himself and use it as he sees on a Boeing 727. One thing led list includes such names as Gary fit. Every effort is made to present materials of wide interest that will to another, and before I knew DeBaun, Rich Stowell and Patty be of help to the majority. Likewise we cannot guarantee nor endorse it, we were talking about burn- Wagstaff. I’ll see you there! IAC any product offered through our advertising. We invite constructive criticism and welcome any report of inferior merchandise obtained ing the grass at Denver Stapleton through our advertising so that corrective measures can be taken. back in the day. His story was so Sport Aerobatics (USPS 953-560) is owned by the International interesting, I just had to include Aerobatic Club, Inc., and is published monthly at EAA Aviation Center, Editorial Department, P.O. Box 3086, 3000 Poberezny Rd., Oshkosh, it in Sport Aerobatics. He even WI 54903-3086. Periodical Postage is paid at Oshkosh Post Office, manages to tie flying the big Oshkosh, Wisconsin 54901 and other post offices. Membership rate for Boeing into aerobatic flying dur- the International Aerobatic Club, Inc., is $45.00 per 12-month period of which $18.00 is for the subscription to Sport Aerobatics. Manuscripts ing the course of his musings. submitted for publication become the property of the International Aerobatic Club, Inc. Photographs will be returned upon request of the author. High-resolution images are requested to assure the best quality reproduction. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Sport Aerobatics, P.O. Box 3086, Oshkosh, WI 54903-3086. CPC 40612608 2 Sport Aerobatics July 2013 Please submit news, comments, articles, or suggestions to: [email protected] IAC AirVenture Lecture Schedule Preliminary preview of attractions Date Start Time End Time Event Location SpeakerName 7/31/2013 10:00 AM 11:15 AM Aerobatics - why get into Aerobatics Pavilion - IAC HQ Patty Wagstaff competition? 7/31/2013 11:30 AM 12:45 PM Aerobatic Wiring, Oil Systems, Aerobatics Pavilion - IAC HQ Bill Bainridge, and Lightweight Starters B&C Specialty Products 7/31/2013 1:00 PM 2:15 PM Falling with Style: What You Aerobatics Pavilion - IAC HQ Michael Church Can Learn from Spins 8/1/2013 10:00 AM 11:15 AM Art & Aerobatics: Joining Two Aerobatics Pavilion - IAC HQ Lise Lemeland Passions through Painting 8/1/2013 11:30 AM 12:45 PM Cultivating NextGen Aerobatics: Aerobatics Pavilion - IAC HQ Michael Lents the Collegiate Program 8/1/2013 1:00 PM 2:15 PM Stearman Aerobatics Aerobatics Pavilion - IAC HQ David Burroughs 8/2/2013 10:00 AM 11:15 AM Loss of Control Aerobatics Pavilion - IAC HQ Rich Stowell 8/2/2013 11:30 AM 12:45 PM “No plane? No Problem” Aerobatics Pavilion - IAC HQ Gary DeBaun Volunteering at a Contest Like airshow preformers prepare for flight, prepare for your AirVenture week. Check the latest IAC schedules for exciting attractons you won’t want to miss. www.iac.org 3 as a Trainer Pitts BONNIE KRATZ 4 Sport Aerobatics July 2013 The best there is. by Budd Davisson Right up front I want to clarify that this is an editorial essay more than it is an article, and I’m in no way taking a neutral position. What follows is my personal opinion, and that opinion is that Pitts Spe- cials, especially the S-2A and -B, are hands down the very best basic trainers in aviation’s broad inven- tory of trainers. Reread that last paragraph. I didn’t say aerobatic trainer. I said “basic trainer,” as in the same ba- sic training category as a C-152 or a Piper Cub. This is based on some- thing over 7,000 hours of dual, given in a wide variety of trainers with more than 5,400 hours of that in a Pitts, in the pattern, at an av- erage of seven to eight landings an hour spread across 42 years. We should also probably clear up another point about the opinion I’m about to share. I teach aerobatics, as all Pitts instructors do, but the vast majority of my instructional time is teaching landings. And ev- erything you know about flying is compressed into the short period between downwind and touchdown. www.iac.org 5 BONNIE KRATZ 6 Sport Aerobatics July 2013 If your basic stick-and-rudder skills are weak, you’ll find that getting the airplane into the “sweet spot” in ground effect just before touchdown is a helluva challenge. In fact, the widespread, and wildly erroneous, reputation of the Pitts is built upon what people think is squirrely ground handling, but isn’t. The repu- tation should actually be built around the higher-than-normal demand placed upon the pilot’s basic skills while flying the ap- proach and getting the setup for the touchdown correct. AARON LURTH I’m not going to get into my feelings about how ground roll etc. These, and a lot more, are should be handled, nor am I go- What I’m saying here part of Ground School 101, but ing to get into how I personally is that the landing roll are barely noticeable in most late- teach approaches. Every Pitts pi- generation airplanes because of lot and every Pitts instructor has is a thousand times careful engineering tweaks. This his own way of doing it, and ev- is especially true of trainers.
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